Sponsorship Program. Childcare / Patrocinios. Cuidado de niños.

Childcare. This week, we would like to explain a little bit about our heart. From day one, we heard God clearly call us into the orphan care ministry, but through the years, He has shown us more and more of His deep love and calling to reach out to children who need a safe, healthy environment in which to heal. We need to do more beyond providing a roof, meals, health care and a better education. We want to model healthy family life for the children we serve so that they may one day desire this for themselves and future generations.

We currently have three homes fulfilling this mission. We rent two homes in a suburban area of San Salvador, a girl’s home and a boy’s home. These two homes are headed by a set of houseparents and are supported by our tias/tias (staff we call aunts or uncles). We currently have 10 girls and 8 boys. Our desire is to live and share Christ daily so that each child may know His healing and amazing love. We believe that smaller family settings is where we can do the deepest work in lives.

We were given a third home that is used for our transition program. When our children reach 18, they are no longer legally able to remain in our children’s home but they are still family, and we desire to continue to show them what that means by remaining part of their lives. We have 8 young adults who are continuing their education or gaining vocational skills who live in the home supervised by residential assistants. We desire that these young adults step out into adult life with the hope for a very different future that what their last would have brought them.

Along with accepting children into our homes, we know that means a child brings their biological family into the picture. Life gets messy for each of us. Our desire is bring about healing for generations. Part of our houseparents role is to get to know family members and be a part of teaching new relational skills and setting whole families on a new course.

Perhaps helping a child live in a loving family setting touches your heart? If so, we would love to share with you how you can make a difference in a child’s life by helping to support the family setting in which they live.